Giving the Motion Pictures a Larger Frame 



Each picture will be one-third higher and 

 one-half wider than the old standard size 



The white hne divides the old style film from the new, while the dotted line 

 indicates its size in proportion. One "sees around corners" with this device 



ANEW form of motion picture 

 which moves horizontally instead 

 of vertically and uses a picture 

 twice as large as the present standard has 

 made its appearance. 



The new picture, made on the standard 

 motion picture film, is exactly twice as 

 wide as the present picture is high, and its 

 height is equal to the width of the present 

 picture. This will give a picture on the 

 screen of a different proportion from that 

 now shown — one-third higher and one-half 

 wider. The present picture is in the pro- 

 portion of three to four and the new 

 picture will be as four is to six. This is 

 accomplished by running the film hori- 

 zontally and using two 

 "frames" for each pic- 

 ture. Only a limited 

 number of large thea- 

 ters will show the pic- 

 tures. The screens of 

 these theaters will be 

 increased in size to 

 twice the present area. 

 The figures of the ac- 

 tors will be as large 

 and even larger than 

 those now projected 

 so that an immense 

 breadth of action is obtained as compared 

 with the present very limited "stage." 



The process is controlled by W. W. 

 Hodkinson. He counts on a great addi- 

 tion to the directing and production of 

 pictures through the use of the larger 



The camera which takes the larger 

 pictures is the "other way around" 



"stage" and believes that after the public 

 has seen the larger picture, it will look upon 

 the old film as it would on the necessity 

 of looking through a knothole at the stage 

 of a legitimate theater and show a marked 

 preference for the new. 



Mechanically the new process is ex- 

 tremely interesting. Standard lenses are 

 used in the photographing. There is 

 consequently no loss of light. The 

 camera is so gaged that with the 

 standard lenses a tremendous depth of 

 focus is attained. 



The projection machines used in the 

 new process are a tremendous improve- 

 ment over those at present in use. A 

 flickerless picture has 

 been attained through 

 simplification of parts 

 on the projector and 

 introduction of new 

 shutter principles 



The amount of film 

 used for each picture 

 will not be doubled. 

 The larger screen, in 

 which more can be 

 shown, will obviate the 

 necessity of the "cut 

 backs" which are now 

 used to show simultaneous action. 



The new process of picture making is 

 the first great improvement in the method 

 of making motion pictures which has been 

 introduced in the business, and it bids fair, 

 in time, to revolutionize it. 



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